Introduction
Health economics is the application of economic theory and economic methods to phenomena and problems associated with health (Culyer 2005). A comprehensive taxonomizing framework that systematically includes the various topics of health economics was developed by Alan Williams from the University of York. The ‘`Williams’ Schematic of Health Economics '' (Culyer and Newhouse 2000) conceptualizes this definition (health economics, concepts). Topics of health economics include – among others – the meaning and measurement of health status, the production of health and health services, the demand for health and health services, cost‐effectiveness analysis, economic evaluation, health insurance, health care financing, equity problems, the organization of health care markets, methods of remuneration of physicians, performance management of health care organizations, and economics of comparative health systems (Culyer 2005; Jones 2006).
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Greß, S., Hessel, F. (2008). Health Economics (Burden of Disease) . In: Kirch, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Public Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5614-7_1407
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